Moses Mendelssohn by Gottlieb, Michah -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Introduction: Moses Mendelssohn and the Project of Modern Jewish Philosophy I | Polemical Writings

The Lavater Affair and Related Documents (1769–1773)

Prefatory Note to Selections 1, 2, & 3

1 | Lavater’s Dedication 2 | Open Letter to Lavater 3 | From “Counter-Reflections to Bonnet’s Palingenesis”

Prefatory Note to Selection 4

4 | Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden, 26 October 1773

Prefatory Note to Selection 5

5 | Letter to “a Man of Rank” (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar) Jerusalem and Related Documents (1782–1783)

Prefatory Note to Selection 6

6 | From the Preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum

Prefatory Note to Selections 7 & 8

7 | “The Search for Light and Right” 8 | Mörschel’s Postscript

Prefatory Note to Selections 9 & 10

9 | From Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism 10 | From Letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg The Pantheism Controversy (1785–1786)

Prefatory Note to Selection 11

11 | From Jacobi’s On the Doctrine of Spinoza

Prefatory Note to Selections 12 & 13

12 | From Morning Hours 13 | From To Lessing’s Friends

II | Writings on the Bible

Prefatory Note to Selection 14 14 | From Introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Prefatory Note to Selection 15

15 | Introduction to Translation of Psalms

Prefatory Note to Selections 16 & 17

16 | From Letter to August Hennings, 29 June 1779 17 | From Light for the Path

Prefatory Note to Selection 18

18 | Selections from the Bi’ur

On Peshat and Derash Lex Talionis On Adam’s Sin On Biblical Poetry The Eternal On Commanding Belief in God, Jewish Election, and Idolatry On Divine Jealousy On Kingship

III | Miscellany

Prefatory Note to Selections 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, & 25 19 | On the Religious Legitimacy of Studying Logic 20 | An Ontological Proof for God’s Existence 21 | A Cosmological Proof for God’s Existence 22 | A Proof for the Immortality of the Soul 23 | A Rational Foundation for Ethics 24 | On the Possibility of Miracles 25 | On the Reliability of Miracles

Suggestions for Further Reading Index